Surreal Nicolas Joly interview

Don't forget part 1:

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I didn't watch Part 2, but in Part 1 I liked the way Gary raved about the man, the legend, the method, but didn't actually give his opinion on the wine they were tasting (06 Clos Sacrees).
 
originally posted by Rahsaan:
I didn't watch Part 2, but in Part 1 I liked the way Gary raved about the man, the legend, the method, but didn't actually give his opinion on the wine they were tasting (06 Clos Sacrees).
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In part two not only does he give his opinion on the Coulee de Serrant he also assigns it a numerical score. Live. On camera. I was pretty hung over when I watched it but really, it's amazing to see. It's as if the number is revealed to him. It just manifests. Right there. On camera. 94 points.
 
originally posted by Putnam Weekley:
First money quote: *(as it grows) a plant is disappearing into it's seed*
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Really, you could say exactly the same thing about breeding primates. Kind of a Klein bottle concept.
 
I went to see Joly speak once, a few years ago. It was very liberating. I felt I had heard everything I needed to, and that I never had to do it again.

The guy is as FOS as it is possible to be, IMO. You can insert "not" at random into his sentences without making them less or more true.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:
The guy is as FOS as ...
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Friend of the sea?
Funny old soul?
French onion soup?

Joly mentions Stefano Bellotti at 16:30 as one of his early philosophical peers. I've been drinking some Cascina degli Ulivi 2005s lately. A bottle of 05 Montemarino left open for four days, drunk at room temperature, was exciting, and especially surprising to the person who had walked away from it four days earlier. That wine is alive, alive I tells ya! (2005 Filagnotti is also doing well.)

Of the others he mentions, who is "Christian Sachs in Austria."
 
originally posted by Putnam Weekley:


Of the others he mentions, who is "Christian Sachs in Austria."
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Saahs.

Nikolaihof. Whose wines are much better than his. Though his latest are better.
 
For the record I like Joly's wines a lot. There were a few stinkers but I could say the same for anybody. And my sister shops at Gary's store and says he is remarkably nice and very helpful.

Joe, you really think he is full of shit? How so? Is it just marketing?
 
originally posted by Kay Bixler:

Joe, you really think he is full of shit? How so? Is it just marketing?
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When you dig into the detail of his 'theories', they appear to me to be content-free. They simply reify his whims. They have no origin, no mechanism and no testability. The opposite of each one is equally likely to be true.

I find the guy annoying. And his wines are recently OK but way overpriced.

Glad to hear that Gary is a good egg.

Did I mention that eggs are the natural shape for barrels because...oh, never mind.
 
originally posted by SFJoe:


I find the guy annoying. And his wines are recently OK but way overpriced.
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price aside, you found the '06 clos sacres just okay?

i don't have much experience with his wines, but i found it pretty interesting,but obviously too young.
 
originally posted by Sharon Bowman:
Strange. I tasted the recent offerings last week at Chambers St. and... well, a 1989 was nice.
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You're tough to calibrate, though. Who do you like in Savennieres?
 
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